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Abstract
People acknowledge the importance of medicinal herbs from ancient time. Until the discovery of modern medicine, medicinal plants have been extensively used for the treatment of some disease management like malaria, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. throughout human evolution. Malaria is one of the earliest recognized diseases and still a threat to third world countries. Significantly, cinchona, a green herb, showed a great promise for its effectiveness in curing malaria. In this review, we venture to pursue the current trends on practices and impacts of medicinal plants on malaria.We conducted a broad search of published articles to locate original publications about potential usage of medicinal herbs against malaria till last decade using PubMed, Google Scholar, and the ancient Indian ayurvedic data. In this review, we discussed specifically the discovery of new green anti-malarial medicines starting from the ancient Ayurveda